Cristiano Ronaldo: Portugal forward on brink of more international history

Cristiano Ronaldo looks acceptable to go planetary football's most-capped men's player

Cristiano Ronaldo volition go the most-capped men's planetary footballer if helium plays successful Portugal's Euro 2024 qualifying opener against Liechtenstein connected Thursday.

And helium is present portion of caller Portugal manager Roberto Martinez's archetypal squad.

Ronaldo - present playing successful Saudi Arabia for Al Nassr - has scored a men's grounds 118 planetary goals.

There were question marks astir his planetary aboriginal aft helium near the transportation successful tears pursuing Portugal's elimination by Morocco astatine the quarter-final stage.

He has scored 9 goals successful 10 appearances for Saudi Arabia's Al Nassr aft leaving Manchester United successful November pursuing a arguable interrogation successful which helium criticised the club.

Martinez has said Ronaldo, who made his planetary debut successful 2003, "is precise important for the team" and "I bash not look astatine the age".

"Records are my motivation," Ronaldo said connected Wednesday. "I privation to go the most-capped subordinate successful history. That would marque maine proud.

"But it doesn't halt there. I inactive privation to beryllium called up precise often."

Kristine Lilly is the most-capped pistillate footballer of each time, having played 354 times for the United States.

Ronaldo continues to marque history

Ronaldo's latest grounds volition further cement his presumption arsenic 1 of the top footballers of each time.

The Portuguese's glittering vocation has seen him triumph 7 home top-flight titles, 11 different large home trophies, 5 Champions Leagues, 4 Club World Cups and 1 European Championship.

The erstwhile Sporting Lisbon, Manchester United, Real Madrid and Juventus guardant has besides won the Ballon d'Or 5 times and been named the Best Fifa Men's subordinate twice.

He became the archetypal subordinate to people 800 top-level vocation goals successful November and besides holds a big of different men's idiosyncratic records for some nine and state including:

• Most Champions League goals (140)
• Most Champions League appearances (183)
• Most Champions League wins (5)
• Only subordinate to people successful 3 Champions League finals
• Appeared successful astir European Championship finals (5)
• Most goals successful European Championship finals (14)
• Most Euro and World Cup last goals combined (22)
• Most planetary goals successful satellite shot (118)
• The archetypal subordinate to people 10 hat-tricks successful men's planetary football

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